Creel for warping-machines.



' "11/645,376. Patented Mar; I3 1900. c. SLINGLAND & a. F. KUETT.

CREEL FOR WARPING MACHINES.

(App1ication filed Aug. 12, 1899.) (No Model.)

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PATENT OFFIQ CHARLES SLINGLAND AND GEORGE F.

KUETT, or PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

CREEL FOR WARPlNG-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,376, dated March 13, 1900. Application filed August 12, 1399. s r al N -7Z6|985- (N9 m l- To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES SLINGLAND and GEORGE F. KUETT, citizens of the United States, residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Oreels; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of racks or frames adapted to maintain the spools or bobbins from which the yarn is taken onto the beam of the warping-machine in the operation of warping and technically known as creels.

The object of the invention is to provide a creel adapted to accommodate, approximately, double the number of spools or bobbins accommodated on creels at present in use, the supporting means for the deliveryreed of the creel being at the same time so constructed and disposed as to insure a perfect and efficient delivery of the yarn from the creel.

The invention consists in the improved creel and in the combination and arrangement of its various parts, substantially as will be hereinafter pointed out, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is an end view of a creel constructed after the principles of our invention. Fig. 2 is an end View of the upper portion of one form of our improved creel, and Fig. 3 is an end View of the upper portion of another form of our invention.

In said drawings,.a designates the usual equilateral triangular frame, provided with a centrally-disposed horizontal and integral brace 12 and having rollers 0 journaled in its base side cl. The top of this frame is surmounted by a horizontal and integral rest 6.

It will be understood, of course, that the frame a shown in the drawings is but one of two or more that are employed in the usual creel structure and which are allexactly likethe one just described The side or inclined rails ff of the several frames a are connected and rigidly secured together by means of the usual parallel and horizontal braces g. It is to be noted that in our creel these braces are provided for both sides thereof and in the same number and relative disposition. Both sets of these several rails are connected and intersected by vertically-disposed strips h, which strips, as usual, carry the spindles or skewers ifor the bobbins or spools 7'. It should be remarked that the skewers are mounted on the strips h of both sides of the creel.

7c is the delivery-reed. This reed is sustained in the preferred form of ourinvention in brackets, each of which is mounted upon the rest 6 of a frame a, being secured thereto, prefably, by means of bolts on. This bracket con sists of an upwardly-extending and inclined arm m and a base-plate n,supporting said arm and having longitudinal slots 0 for the reception of the bolts m, and therefore providing for adjustment of the plate on the rest. The arm and the base-plate are preferably con structed integral. Near its upper end the arm m is enlarged and slightly rebent, properly-shaped sockets p q being formed therein as rests, the former for the reed and the lattor for a glass bar 1', over which the yarn is adapted to pass previously to extending through the reed.

In the form of the invention which Fig. 2 illustrates the upper end of each frame a is not surmounted by the rest 6, but instead the upper ends of the rails f f are extended, forming projections s,each of which is adapted to receive the lower bifurcated end tof a bracket u for the reed, a bolt 1; being provided for securing the bracket in place and penetrating the bifurcated end thereof and also the projections. Thisbracketis formed to extend in thedirection of the rail to which it is secured, but its upper end w is enlarged and approximately horizontal, being provided with the sockets p q for the reed and glass bar, respectively, the same as hereinbefore described in connection with the preferred form of our invention.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 3 the bracket as is substantially T-shaped, its lower end being reduced and threaded and set in a slot y in the rest e. An integral collar supports the bracket on the rests and coacts with a nut a, screwed onto the threaded end of the bracket to clamp the latter in position. The cross-arm b of the bracket is provided with three sockets, the intermediate one, o, being for the reed and the other two, (7 for the glass bar.

In view of the foregoing it will be seen that while our improved creel is adapted for the accommodation of approximately twice the number of spools which the ordinary creel accommodates, the reed and glass-bar bracket are so constructed and arranged relatively to both sets of spools that the yarn can be taken off either or both sides of the creel with perfect facility and uniformity and lead to either the right or left of the frame by reason of the fact that the guide-bar is disposed substan tially over the vertical center of the frame in either of the bracket adjustments, while the reed is by such adjustments or changes of the brackets disposed to one side or the other of the guide-bar. Furthermore, in the form of the invention shown in Fig. 2, by virtue of the detachability of the bracket the same can be placed on the creel for use in either of two positions, according to the direction in which the yarn is to extend from the reed, while in the modification shown in Fig. 3 the bracket is readily adjustable transversely of the creel, so that it may be brought more or less near to one set of spools than the other, if desired, and, by virtue of the fact that it has two glassbar supports, it can accommodate the yarn in whichever direction the latter extends and Without reversing the bracket.

When in the claims we refer to projections as being provided for the reed and glass-bar brackets, whereby the latter are adjustably secured in position, We desire to be understood as limiting ourselves no more to the portion a shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings than to the member m illustrated in Fig. 1, or, in fact, any other like part.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a creel-frame, the combination of a suitable supporting-frame having both sides thereof sloping or inclined from the vertical and provided with bobbin or spool supporting spindles or skewers, brackets detachably mounted on said frame, areed carried by said brackets, a guide-bar also carried by said brackets and disposed above and between the two series of spool orbobbin supporting spindles and at a substantially-uniform distance from each to direct the yarn from one or both sets of spools or bobbins.

2. In a creel-frame, the combination of a suitable supporting-frame having both sides thereof sloping or inclined, and provided with bobbin or spool spindles, brackets mounted above the creel-frame and carrying a reed and guide-bar adjacent each other, the latter being disposed above the center of the creelframe, and provisions for changing the relative position of the reed and guide-bar.

In a creel-frame, the combination of a suitable supporting-frame having its sides sloping or inclined, and provided with bobbin or spool spindles, brackets surmounting said frame and carrying a reed and guide-bar adjacent each other, the latter being disposed substantially over the center of the creel frame, and means for adjusting the brackets upon the frame to change the reed to opposite sides of the guide-bar.

4. In a creel-frame, the combination of a suitable supporting -frame having its sides sloping or inclined, and provided with'bobbin or spool supporting spindles, brackets surmounting said frame and carrying a reed and guide-bar, devices for detachably connecting the brackets to either side of said frame,w-hereby they maybe changed to shift the reed to either side of the guide'bar.

5. In a creel-frame, the combination of a suitable frame having the sides thereof sloping or inclined and provided with spool or bobbin supporting spindles or skewers, the sides of said frame being provided with upwardly-extending projections, brackets carrying a reed and guide-bar and having their ends bifurcated to engage either of the said projections, and means for securing said brackets to either of said projections.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing We have hereunto set our hands this 10th day of August, 1899.

CHARLES SLINGLAND.

' GEORGE F. KUETT.

WVitnesses:

JOHN W. STEW'ARD, WILLIAM E. FISCHER. 

